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/ 30 December 2008
The uneven matric results show that despite a curriculum change, the SA education system is still plagued by problems rooted in the apartheid era.
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/ 30 December 2008
SA’s trade deficit widened to R12,1-billion in November largely due to higher vehicle imports and lower precious metals exports.
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/ 30 December 2008
The country’s 2008 matric class received a pass rate of 62,5 %, Education Minister Naledi Pandor said on Tuesday.
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/ 29 December 2008
The festive season road accident death toll has been nearly halved in 2008, down to 774 fatalities compared to last year’s 1 474.
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/ 29 December 2008
ANC president Jacob Zuma on Monday urged tougher legislation against all forms of crimes in a country where over 50 murders are committed every day.
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/ 29 December 2008
SA face their biggest challenge since readmission to international football 16 years ago when they host the Fifa Confederations Cup next June.
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/ 28 December 2008
Fano Ephraim Mtshali hasn’t held a steady job since 1998 and claws out a living for his two children and his eight orphaned nieces and nephews.
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/ 28 December 2008
The legacy of OBE is revealing itself through those who have lived the changes, write Cornia Pretorius and Primarashni Gower.
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/ 27 December 2008
Thembelihle Tshabalala goes to Musina and listens to Zimbabwean refugees suffering as they wait for asylum.
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/ 26 December 2008
The single most important legacy of OBE is another lost generation in South Africa’s poorest schools, writes Cornia Pretorius.
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/ 26 December 2008
Adriaan Basson asks if public toilets are the last uncensored spaces to air one’s views.
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/ 25 December 2008
A third body from the Kingfisher — which capsized and sunk off Oyster Bay this week — was recovered on Thursday, Eastern Cape police said.
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/ 25 December 2008
In August 2006 United States president elect Barack Obama visited South Africa at the start of a five-country tour of the continent.
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/ 25 December 2008
There’s a move afoot locally to hustle crime fiction into the thriller category. Evangelisers of this new gospel say crime is a reminder of SA reality
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/ 25 December 2008
Brent Meersman goes up and down Cape Town’s cosmopolitan strip.
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/ 24 December 2008
As we move into 2009, one prediction can be made with confidence: while the Zuma case continues, turbulent constitutional times are likely.
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/ 23 December 2008
Mining deaths have dropped by 23% despite the absence of a presidential audit report, trade union Solidarity said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 December 2008
Two more people have been admitted to hospital with suspected cholera in the KwaZulu-Natal Midlands, the provincial health department said on Tuesday.
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/ 23 December 2008
Mbeki biographer Mark Gevisser reflects on the former president’s annus horribilis and the uncertainties left in the wake of his unceremonious exit.
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/ 23 December 2008
It’s easy to dislike Christmas when you were born a cynical old man. As a child, as if in training to become a columnist, I hated everything.
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/ 22 December 2008
The SAHRC on Monday said it would soon begin to investigate the origins of anti-immigrant violence that claimed more than 60 lives in May.
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/ 22 December 2008
A total of 1 722 people were assaulted and 111 people sustained gunshot wounds in KZN over the first 18 days of December.
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/ 22 December 2008
Gauteng police on Monday dismissed media reports that explosives and weapons found on a plot in Rustenburg were linked to the Boeremag.
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/ 22 December 2008
Cosatu has vowed to fight an anticipated flurry of retrenchments in the new year as companies come to blows with the global economic recession.
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/ 22 December 2008
The ANC has called for the release of a memo detailing ”political meddling” by the Scorpions in investigations into the ANC Free State chairperson.
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/ 22 December 2008
A serious car accident can now bankrupt you for life, the Johannesburg Attorneys Association said on Monday.
Being the white mother of a black child has been a salutary lesson in race awareness for Belinda Beresford.
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/ 22 December 2008
At least five SA Roadlink buses were impounded along KwaZulu-Natal’s busy N3 highway on the weekend, the Transport Department said on Monday.
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/ 22 December 2008
How did SA’s Cabinet members fare this year? The M&G rates their performances and offers analytic insight.
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/ 21 December 2008
Bloemfontein Celtic earned themselves a lifeline when they achieved a hard-fought 1-0 win over Free State Stars on Sunday.
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/ 21 December 2008
South Africa’s Richard Sterne moved into the world top 50 on Sunday after capturing the South African Open title.
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/ 21 December 2008
Thirty-eight drivers were arrested for traffic violations in Ekurhuleni this the weekend, police said on Sunday.